Speedy vs Saper 222 (no Saper 222)

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Bryansk:

Panzers advance and encircle 7 x Rifle Div's.

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Dne/Zap area:

Breakout and encircle 6 x Rifle Div's:

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Crimea:

All quiet. Whopee [;)]

Odessa still standing tall against the Rumy's who sit tight.

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Losses:

Air:

Axis: 91
SU: 373

Battle Stats:

2 x Held, 37 x Retreat, 7 x Surrender, 7 x Rout

[Speedysteve]

LG:

Post SU moves.

Will mostly likely fall in a week or 2 tops weather permitting.

[Speedysteve]

Ilmen:

Static.

5 x Rifle Div's of 7th Army throw assault 2nd Rgt of 93rd Infantry Division across the Pola throwing the Fascists back.

[Speedysteve]

Vyazma:

Failure.

3 x Rifle Div's attacked the Axis 95th Infantry Division east of my encircled units but fail miserably.

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Bryansk:

Desperate attacks by 13th and 20th Armies temporarily rescue my trapped men.

I'm aware that Saper will most likely swallow up more men next turn in the pocket but it does keep him occupied for another turn AND I have a lot of industry in the area I need to evac!

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Centre overview:

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South:

Furious battles down here. An inital attack against 16th Motorised Div (blue circle) failed but a secondary attack against 14th Panzer (red circle) succeeded. Temproary respite once more....Once more can't run so much as have industry to evac and I need to buy 2-3 turns for Stalino region and starting to evac here...let alone Moscow [;)]

God I need some of this 'Pelton Lord of the Rings rain weather' down in the Soviet Sentral Zone [;)]

[Speedysteve]

Dne/Zap area:

Desperate attacks by 16th Army force the mixed Fascist forces back over the Dnepr:

[Speedysteve]

A snapshot of the Production Pools:

Moved 20 x Vehicle from Kharkov and 2 x ARM from Bryansk.

SU battle stats: 6 x retreat, 3 x held

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Turn 9.

Start of SU Turn.

Geezo. This guy is an immense Axis player. Viertually nothing goes wrong for him and he knows his sh* down to a T. I thought I was a decent player but this is something else....I'll post the pics then I'll be thinking whether to carry on. It's not being defeatest it's pragmatic and utterly aware of the futility of this carrying on and wasting time. To me it's looking like my 3rd defeat out of 20. I have no tangible force left, no space to run to and no option to form defences since I'm totally on the hop...discuss:

LG holds. Weee [;)]

[Speedysteve]

Ilmen....11 Divisons worth dead. No reserves to be able to form any defence up here:

[Speedysteve]

Vyazma:

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Bryansk: 6 x ARM locked, 12 x Div's toast:

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South: 16 x Div's dead:

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Losses:

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OOB:

I'll lose 540,000 men in these pockets (including LG (425,000 excl LG).....

If I hear anymore stuff from Pelton saying the Axis are nerfed in 41 he's gonna get it[;)] [:D]

All these units that have encircled mine are near the end of their supply columns (30-40 SP's)...you wouldn't have thought it.

Problem I have now is I have nowhere to run (without losing VITAL industry) which means either way I'm screwed. If I stay long enough to evac it I'll have no army as it can't fight, attack or move more than 10 miles a day without needing to lay down. If I run I won't have the industry to be able to fight back in later years anyway.

This is very impressive by Saper. Never played against anything like it. Thoroughly outplayed. Think I'll be taking a break after this game and going back to the drawing board and re-setting my mind set from being a good player to an average one at best!